Hello Wikisourcerers,

It gives us immense pleasure and excitement to you that the Wikisource Reader mobile application is now released for Android users at the Google Play Store for them to read books which are completely proofread and transcluded on Wikisource websites. The Github repo is here and a website for the app is also created.

The metadata of the books are fetched directly from Wikidata and strictly follows the bibliographical book model of Wikidata. So to appear in the app, any completed book must fulfill the three mandatory criteria mentioned below. They need to have corresponding:

Wikidata items
Wikisource sitelink with proofread or validation badges
P1957 property linked in the items.

A sample Wikidata item of one such book is here. A sample SPARQL query to list the books to be displayed in the app for one specific language is here. A detailed documentation can be found on this Meta-Wiki page.

The app currently supports 22 language Wikisource editions like Assamese, Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, English, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Javanese, Marathi, Malay, Polish, Punjabi, Spanish, Sundanese, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. More languages will be added in next releases as and when they fulfill the mandatory criteria in due course for at least 1-5 books as a start.

The app has the following features

Clean and beautiful user interface
Dark and Light theme
Option to browse free e-books in multiple languages
Option to import books from non-Wikisource external sources
Option to filter books in different literary forms
Option to download books for offline access
Option to store, read and delete books from library
Option to jump through chapters
In-built e-book reader
Customization of font color, size and weight
Light, Dark, Sepia and customized color mode for reading
Adjustment of page margins
RTL and LTR support
System default typeface along with options for Literata, Sans Sarif, IA Writer Duospace, AccsiibleDfa and OpenDyslexic typefaces
Option to choose among left, right and justified text alignments
Customization of line height, paragraph indent, paragraph spacing, word spacing and letter spacing
Options to highlight, underline and annotate texts
Option to bookmark
Text to Speech in different languages with customizable speed and pitch

The app is dependent on

WSindex API, which was built specifically to fetch books for the app. The source code is here.
WS export tool to generate Epubs
Myne app by Shivam for user interface
Readium mobile by The European Digital Reading Lab (EDRLab) for the actual reading experience.

The development of the app was initially financially supported by Centre for Internet and Society until March 2025, who also host the app on Google play store now. The app is now developed and maintained in volunteer capacity and we welcome all open source developers and experienced Wikisource contributors to contribute to the development of the app for the future.

We sincerely thank everyone who was involved in supporting the app in different ways, without whom this app could not have been developed.

Regards,

Sai Phanindra and Bodhisattwa

(both as volunteer capacity)